Taxi drivers have different brains
...as if we didn't know already.
From backword.me.uk:
I’m not certain why the London Taxi Driver study received an Ig Nobel. It was a beautifully done study. For those who don’t know, people who want to be black cab taxi drivers in London take a 3 year course (3/4 drop out) to pass an exam. They have to memorize essentially every street in a 6 mile radius (street names sometimes change block by block) and significant landmarks along those streets. All this information they refer to simply as “the knowledge.” It was shown that the hippocampi of these taxi drivers are larger than normal and are larger in drivers who have been driving longer. This study helped change medical opinion on the ‘plasticity’ of the adult brain and has important implications for brain damage and diseases like Parkinson’s.
Of course, with me everything is larger than normal.
And I just wanted to get this off of my chest: homosexual necrophiliac ducks are either totally sick fucks or totally cool, I can't decide which.
From backword.me.uk:
I’m not certain why the London Taxi Driver study received an Ig Nobel. It was a beautifully done study. For those who don’t know, people who want to be black cab taxi drivers in London take a 3 year course (3/4 drop out) to pass an exam. They have to memorize essentially every street in a 6 mile radius (street names sometimes change block by block) and significant landmarks along those streets. All this information they refer to simply as “the knowledge.” It was shown that the hippocampi of these taxi drivers are larger than normal and are larger in drivers who have been driving longer. This study helped change medical opinion on the ‘plasticity’ of the adult brain and has important implications for brain damage and diseases like Parkinson’s.
Of course, with me everything is larger than normal.
And I just wanted to get this off of my chest: homosexual necrophiliac ducks are either totally sick fucks or totally cool, I can't decide which.
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